LED Backlit LCDs Overtaking CCFL in All Markets

From DailyTech: Over the last few years, LED backlighting on TFT LCD screens has moved beyond tech that is found in a few high-end notebooks and other devices to being one of the more common technologies used in notebooks and netbooks at a variety of different price ranges. CCFL...

PS3 Motion Controller May Finally Have a Name

From DailyTech: Since Sony first showed it off during E3 2009, the PlayStation 3 motion controller has been spoken about and promoted without an official name from the company.

Sending the rumor mill into overdrive, Sony recently registered the playstationarc.com domain, which has...

Samsung Settles With Rambus for $900 Million

From Tom's Hardware: Rambus has emerged victorious from another legal patent-laced battle. The memory company announced with Samsung that the two had reached a settlement agreement and a forward-going license.

As part of the overall agreement, Samsung will initially pay Rambus $200...

Microsoft Patches Critical Flaw in Internet Explorer

From DailyTech: While some flaws go unexploited and turn out to be relatively harmless, a recent flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers led to some serious damage. Chinese hackers used the memory flaw to execute remote code and steal valuable information from some of the...

Apple Fiscal Q1 Profit Tops $3.38B, iPhone Sales Double

From DailyTech: As if there weren't enough to look forward to from the folks at Cupertino this week, Apple today released its quarterly earnings after the closing bell and the results are no less than stellar. Results from fiscal Q1 2010 saw revenue shoot up to $15.6B while quarterly...

HTC expecting sales turnaround with new lineup

From CNET News.com: After struggling throughout 2009, mobile phone maker HTC is eyeing an upturn in sales this year, though profit margins are still likely to be down.

Earlier this month, HTC announced a 31 percent drop in fourth quarter 2009 earnings to 5.6 billion Taiwan dollars (...

Judge Finds Nvidia Guilty of Infringing Certain Rambus Patents

From X-bit Labs: Memory and interconnection technologies designer Rambus has announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) preliminary found Nvidia guilty of violating three Rambus’ patents as well as several regulatory acts...

AMD Introduces Sub-$100 Phenom II Microprocessor

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday released five new microprocessors, among which there is the company’s first Phenom II chip that costs less than $100, which is also the company’s highest-performing dual-core product, energy-efficient high-speed quad-core central...

Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security

From InfoWorld: Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Tuesday announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server, and storage resources in multi-tenant systems.

The companies are providing...

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